Shamini Flint

"Chelsea Liew! A ridiculous name - par for the course with the adoption of Western names by Singaporeans aiming to give themselves a cosmopolitan air. Unfortunately, they often picked the most improbab…"

"But these quiet people, in their animal skin clothes with their diet of sago, were not to be left alone to wander through the lush jungles, living off the land, leaving no mark when they moved on, tea…"

"Buried six feet under, buried facing Mecca, burnt to cinders ... it does not matter. He is rotting in hell this very moment."

"Rupert did not understand why the parasites in cities did not understand the most fundamental tenet of nature - that a parasite eventually kills its host. Did these people not know that if they contin…"

"Now he was in a holding pen with various members of the Kuala Lumpur criminal fraternity and they scared him They ranged from a Chinese gang member, whose dragon tattoo foraged up his arm and curled a…"

"....so many languages were spoken in Malaysia that quite often the wheels of justice ground to a standstill for the lack of an interpreter who could restore the tower of babel to a court of law."

"No respectable Sikh family would buy art merely for its aesthetic qualities."

"Sometimes, if you want to protect something you care about, you have to take extreme steps."